I wonder if during descent instead of cutting power alot to control speed it can instead use the energy to charge the batteries.
Says that it's boost-only in all the literature I could see, so it can only add power to the prop not generate with it. Regardless, you don't really get into a position where you're harvesting energy in a plane - you just use less power while you're descending. Unlike in a car, most of a passenger jet's flight time is at speeds where drag (which squares with speed) basically means you'd have to nose down at a very aggressive angle to actually pick up speed without the engines providing thrust. The plane's engines are almost always under some kind of load until it is on the tarmac and slowing down so there isn't any opportunity to "regen" during a normal flight.